I don't mean to sound dismissive - this is not at all a definitive policy of ours, and again I'm not even saying those two bands are out forever. It's just that we don't have the resources to be as broad as we'd like.

going by comments, ratings, and other user submissions or active signs of interest is about all we have to rely on.

related suggestions. Overall traffic isn't a good indicator of value - half the hits a page gets are probably bots crawling the site. As much as I'd like us to have an infinite database that can cater to absolutely everybody,

a zero-sum game in terms of bands being added or not. Therefore, we have to be more judicious. One of the tools we use to determine whether it's worth the time expenditure is to look at engagement with similar bands or otherwise

degree, it all does hinge on what we can be personally motivated to do. If we had endless manpower, then yes, I'd love to have greater representation of subgenres that fall by the wayside. But at this point we are still talking

I’m fine with deleting Sleep Token.

places. But the reality is that all of these ideas are limited by the physical limitations of the staff. We have only a small handful of people who already spend countless unpaid hours keeping up the database, and to a certain